Job Description

Would you like the opportunity to work on bespoke business applications for blue-chip companies such as The Financial Times and Spotify?

Would you like the opportunity to travel to Europe for a training course paid for by your employer?

Then look no further!

My client is an award-winning global cloud technology company selling their award-winning software and providing expert professional services to companies that evolving and innovating their business.

Alongside the most competitive salary on the market, just some of the most popular benefits include the flexibility to start early and finish early/start late and finish late; the option to work from home one day a week and monthly team nights out! Not forgetting, the city centre location of my clients office close to the train station.

As a member of the Software Development team, the successful candidate will contribute to the design, build and maintenance of industry-leading business solutions. As a Software Developer you will work with product managers, architects and other developers to analyse requirements, document designs, and build solutions that contribute to the growth of the company portfolio.

You will:

Create applications and features that conform to best practice coding standards, make optimal use of advanced framework capabilities, and have full unit test coverage

Work with testers to help define the approach for testing of new deliverables, and resolve in a timely fashion any issues discovered during the testing process

Provide product support, which includes educating colleagues in the use of new product features, as well as analysing and resolving issues reported by project teams and customers

Produce technical documentation as required

You will work in the company's Leeds office with a small but growing team of colleagues.

Person specification

You will be a highly motivated self-starter who is comfortable working in teams that may be spread across a number of different locations. In addition you will:

Be a quick learner and keen to embrace new technologies and development frameworks

Be a clear communicator and team player

Be able to work under your own initiative

Be able to write documents in clear English

Have a talent for problem solving and a well-organised approach to work

Applicants should be aware that some occasional travel may be required to regional offices -This will be infrequent and for short periods.

Technical capabilities

The successful candidate must have or be studying for a degree in a relevant technical subject, and have some commercial software development experience, gained through full time employment or student work opportunities and demonstrable development experience using modern frameworks, coding standards and techniques.